Word: golds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears dead. Opinion pages in recent issues of the Independent range from the gold mine crimes of Charles Engelhard to the true definition of a "liberal arts education." The Harvard Gazette recently asked some of Harvard's "wise men and women" (Harvard professors) to discuss the important issues of 1979. Not one mentioned food...
Ming vases? Antiques? Gold? Cattle? All can tumble out of favor and decline in price. So where is the perplexed American investor to park his extra cash and protect its value? Certainly not in a savings account. Had Phineas T. Barnum lived today, his famous dictum might well have been: There's a saver born every minute. In the inflationary 1970s, savers are suckers who stand to lose. If inflation should continue at February's 15.4% rate, every dollar put into a bank at 5¼% interest will become 91.4? in real money a year from...
BORN. To Olga Korbut, 23, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and now works for the Byelorussian State Sports Committee, and Leonid Bortkevich, 28, lead vocalist of Pesnyary, the Soviet Union's top folk-rock group: a son, their first child; in Minsk. Name: Richard...
FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Fielder's Choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman ∙ Good as Gold, Joseph Heller ∙ SS-GB, Len Deighton ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Günter Grass...
...Good as Gold, Heller...